04:00
2026-07-13
arxiv.org
machine-learning
Probing Diffusion Denoising Dynamics for Contrastive Representation Learning
D$^3$CL, a parameter-efficient adaptation framework for pretrained diffusion models, achieves 80.1% linear-probing accuracy on ImageNet-1K and an FID of 5.56 for unconditional generation by coupling cβ¦